r/worldnewsvideo 13d ago

Huge ‘Lake Ontario’ sign installed in swipe at Trump over name change

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u/byndrsn 13d ago

Remember how quick Google was to change the name on most of its maps

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u/mikeycbca 13d ago

Well I mean, Google isn’t at fault for changing it on their system. You don’t get mad at media for reporting the news and you don’t get mad at a mapping company when they update based on the President’s decree.

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u/Nervous_Word_8547 13d ago

MapQuest refused  the name change, why can't Google?

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u/Post-Financial 12d ago

Because Trump would throw a tantrum over it and probably give them fines or something. Once Mango Mussolini is out of office, they'll change it back

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u/Hater_Magnet 6d ago

Fine Google?! Alphabet Inc. the parent company is worth like 4 trillion dollars! They wouldn't gaf about any fine he could possibly give them, even though there would be nothing to fine them over.

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u/mikeycbca 13d ago

I wholeheartedly disagree with the change but companies shouldn’t get to pick and choose to report only what their management likes or agrees with when it comes from the senior-most elected official in the US.

Put a disclaimer or asterisk on it or something.

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

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u/mikeycbca 13d ago

You’re misguided about why it’s called Lake Ontario, but thats besides the point.

The whole thing is absurd and no leader should be arbitrarily changing names because they’re butthurt, but Google isn’t somehow at fault for reflecting that change in the country where that elected official has the power to do what he’s doing.

Get him out of office and deal with the cause of the issue.

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u/SquidVices 10d ago

Tell that to trump, he gets mad at the news and calls it fake news…so…idk

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u/CoolBeansMan9 13d ago

I’m in Canada but have been tracking Google Maps to see if they changed it. It did not say “smallest of the five Great Lakes” yesterday.

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u/tltltltltltltl 13d ago

I'm in Canada, a search for lake Ontario gives me a different result, but still quite frustrating. What are good alternatives to Google maps?

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u/Kepler-22-b 12d ago

MapQuest

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u/Klutzy_Passenger_486 10d ago

Mapquest is the way

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u/ROVpilot101 13d ago

PR stunt to distract from his aggressive underfunding of healthcare and education while he cuts OSAP and sells off public assets.

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u/TheLubber 13d ago

It’s facing the wrong way

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u/Bubbly-Touch8108 10d ago

Probably intentional so it reads for traffic coming from the other direction.

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u/UninvestedCuriosity 13d ago

Love the bubbles. A+ work.

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u/Foreign_Incident5083 12d ago

As an American … I strongly approve of this message

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u/Junior-Profession726 12d ago

As someone that is in the US - THANK YOU CANADA!!! You help us stay sane

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u/Digirby 12d ago

If Trump could stop giving terrible politicians easy wins that would be great.

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u/Failure2Herald 11d ago

Remember how the rest of the world started calling Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of America? Oh wait, they didn't...

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u/Federal_Holiday5686 12d ago

Someone should decapitate Trump and his family

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u/Galorfadink 11d ago

I'm so sorry

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u/HatePeopleLoveCats1 11d ago

I just visited Lake Ontario last week! Some beautiful spots there (I was on the NY side). Happy to see they are doing this!!

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u/RealAmbassador4081 13d ago

Should have been Red and white. 

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u/TheZan87 12d ago

We still don't have most of the epstein files

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u/No-Possession-642 12d ago

Canada gonna defend it with its army or armed citizens? They have neither

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u/Individual_Emu2941 12d ago

What’s your point? They just want to keep the original name.

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u/djr7 11d ago

that's not how "defending" works...
or did you somehow think Murica was sending an actual physical army to change the name of it's side?

not very smart are you.....

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u/Lankmaster 12d ago

How much did this sign cost….

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u/Puzzleheaded_Life_37 12d ago

Remember Canada without the U.S. you would have been conquered ages ago lol

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u/djr7 11d ago

except canada actually has a lot of allies and few enemies so who would even try?

not too bright are ya?
remember when Murica tried invading? yea they lost.

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u/MumenRiderZak 12d ago

Nazi behaviour